Texas Gardening: HELP.....Snake ID?, 1 by MaypopLaurel

MaypopLaurel wrote:
It's best to keep your dog in during late afternoon according to my vet. Apparently that is when they are more apt to be hunting (not that they aren't out at other hours). We have an incurable copperhead hunter. She will dig a whole to China to get at them. She is a hound and can smell them underground. After multiple 24 hour emergency vet trips at $600 a pop we now keep meds on hand, prescribed by our regular vet, to treat her. The swelling lasts 24-48 hours and then there are weeks of skin sloughing and healing. This is her twelfth and the first of the season. We never know when to make that shift of not letting her out in the afternoon 'cause she prefers to be outside.

We have considered the possible fortune awaiting if we can figure out how to manufacture anti-venom from her. lol She must be the venom equivalent of radioactive.